The humanoid robot named "Pepper", designed by Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, was seen in action wearing a Buddhist robe chanting sutras at Japan's largest funeral and cemetery expo.

A Japanese company has programmed a popular robot, Pepper, to perform Buddhist funeral rites. But will society ever accept ...

Japanese professional baseball began letting ... the representative added. Pepper robots are often seen at shops of major mobile carrier Softbank Corp. and have become well-known, but what is ...

Pepper was one of the most high profile robots, making appearances at events ... looks as if it may be retired - for now at least. Its maker, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, confirmed to ...

With Japan facing a significant labor shortage ... When it’s two cameras detect a ripe pepper, a robot arm extends to cut the fruit and place it in a cart. It takes the robot about a minute ...

About 10 percent of care homes in Japan use any sort of robot—including monitoring systems or mobility aids—let alone a humanoid. Production of Pepper was paused in 2020 due to lack of demand.

Meet Pepper, a humanoid robot that reads the emotions of people it meets and reacts to their moods using its voice, arm and hand gestures, and changes in eye color to express itself. Pepper also ...

The nuclear fuel sample, the size of a grain of rice, was placed into a secure container Thursday, marking the end of the ...

Earlier this week it was widely reported that Softbank’s friendly-faced almost-humanoid Pepper robot was not long for this world, as the Japanese company’s subsidiary in France that had been ...

All week on 5 live and across the BBC, we're taking a look at how intelligent robots are changing the world we live in. Peter Allen has spent a few days in Tokyo finding out what's happening at ...